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This paper deals with the legal nature of forced share which can be two-sided-forced share as a property right (forced share in kind), like it exists in Croatia and forced share as a money claim (forced share in value), like it exists in some European countries. The paper outlines basic characteristics of both of these systems, their advantages and disadvantages, it brings the overview of forced share as a money claim in certain European countries, it lists the standpoints of different authors that have written about this topic and it brings suggestions of possible changes concerning the legal nature of forced share in Croatia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The office of the High Commissioner on National Minorities, body of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, published at the end of 2008 a set of recommendations dealing with the rights of national minorities in inter-state relations. In this paper circumstances related to the origins of Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations are analysed, subsequently the paper presents the content of the Recommendations, and finally, the paper analyses to what extent the Recommendations have been reflected in minority-related legislation and policies of Croatia and several neighbouring countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims at presenting a (new) discipline- law and economics also known as economic analysis of law that has not fully taken hold in Croatian theory and practice. Following the introductory remarks the second part of the paper deals with basics of economic analysis of law, a separate scientific discipline that makes use of economic analysis as a means for evaluation of laws and regulations or to use the institutionalists' terms - institutions, their economic efficiency and social adequacy. The third part of the paper gives a survey of economic analysis of law application in a case study of defining the term of imprisonment as a sanction imposed for committing criminal offences. The fourth part comments briefly on why this approach to law has not fully taken hold in Europe while being quite popular in the United States not only in academic circles but in (legal) practice as well. Concluding remarks point out potential deficiencies in this approach to law; nevertheless they can encourage further research in this exceptionally interesting scientific discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents some of the hitherto rather little-known examples of liturgical polyphony, the so-called ßsimple poliphonyÇ Ñ from the Croatian regions. The research presented here follows on from the first systematic examination of these sources by Rudolf Flotzinger: ßMittelalterliche Mehrstimmigkeit in Dalmatien und SlowenienÇ, Revista de musicolog.a, vol. XVI, Nr. 3, Madrid, 1993, pp. 29-49. Occurrences of the ßsimple polyphonyÇ in the Croatian liturgical practice are to be found in the liturgical manuscripts from the period between the late 13th and the 19th centuries.Among about one hundred Ñ mostly two-part Ñ liturgical chants, a predominant number are those for the mass ordinary. The author focuses on her own insights into some of the earliest examples of simple polyphony from Dalmatia: a two-part troped Sanctus from the Cartulary of the Benedictine monastery of St Mary in Zadar (late 13th century) and a group of two-part Benedicamus domino chants, now kept in the Dominican monastery in Stari Grad on the island of Hvar, and compares them with the chants from similar Italian sources. Other examples discussed here are: a two-part chant Tota pulchra es from the manuscript by the friar Frane Divniæ from Zadar (17th century) and a Requiem from the codex now kept in the Benedictine monstery at Cres (18th century). In addition, the paper contains a brief discussion of the sociological context of these sources. A preliminaryconclusion may be reached that the monastic communities in Croatia, in particulary those of the Franciscans, Dominicans and Benedictines, were the main bodies responsible for the long survival of this medieval phenomenon in the Croatian regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses laws on landscape protection by providing an analysis and evaluation of the status of landscape protection in Croatia, regulated by four laws, and its comparison to that of other European countries. As a result, it provides guidelines for improving landscape protection and for an efficient application of European Landscape Convention in Croatia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the paper, the author compares the legislation that regulates the Croatian pension insurance system with the obligations from acquis communitaire in the context of the harmonisation of the legislation in the process of the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union (EU). The author is not merely limited to the formal adjustment of the Croatian legislation with acquis communitaire, but also questions the adjustment of the Croatian pension system with the European social model which is applied in the pension system area, and which derives from acquis communitaire, as well as the practice in Western European countries. In the concluding part, the author determined the adjustment of the legislation that regulates the Croatian pension system with acquis communitaire, but also points out that a part of this system is not adjusted to the European social model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]